Settling on the Great Plains

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Settling on the Great Plains
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The End of the Cattle Frontier End of the
Cowboy

• Why did it come to an end?
• Overgrazing of land
• 2 Extended Bad Weather
• 3 Barbed Wire
• 4 Railroad Industry

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Farmers Call the Plains Home

• Why?
• Railroad
• By the 1880s, four transcontinental railroads
  were built
• Homestead Act of 1862

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Coping with the Elements

• Types of Homes
• Dugout Homes
• Sod Homes

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Helping Some Farmers Get By

• Government Help
• Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 and 1890
• Gave federal lands to states that promised to
  build agricultural colleges

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What Great Inventions!

• Barbed Wire
• Steel Plow
• New and improved Reaper
• Steel Windmill